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B23158 To all magistrates and people in Christendom and elsewhere to turn from the persecuting mind that destroyes peoples bodies and estates for not conforming to your religion and worship : and that you may receive the mind of Christ, as the apostles did, who came to save mens lives, and not to destroy them, and to rebuke them that would destroy mens lives and estates / by George Fox. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1676 (1676) Wing F1939 6,350 13

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togather the Wheat into the Garner and the Tares into bundles for the Fire And therefore they that go to gather either have no Commission from Christ for he gave them a Caution Lest ye also gather the Wheat with the Tares and lest their Zeal should Blind them So men are to mind their duty which is to love Mercy and to do Justly and to walk Humbly with God And not to take the Angels work upon them and go to Reaping before the time which is the End of the World And likewise when Christ sent forth some of his Disciples to prepare for him and some would not receive them Lord said they Shall we command Fire to come down from Heaven to consume them as Elias the Prophet did Christ turned about and rebuked his Disciples and told them They did not know of what Spirit they were of And told them He did not come to destroy mens Lives but to save them So ye may see here the Disciples of Christ had a Zeal and would have had Fire to have come down from Heaven to have Consumed them that would not receive Christ These Disciples would have been plucking up Tares but Christ rebuked them and stopt them and told them They did not know of what Spirit they were of that would have commanded Fire to come down from Heaven to have consumed them that would not receive him And now do all you that have Persecuted Imprisoned and spoiled the Goods of the People of God in Christendom because they would not conform to your Religion know what Spirit you are of your selves And they that do not know what Spirit they are of themselves must be in the blind Zeal and will be doing that which Christ Rebukes and they that do not know what Spirit they are of themselves are not like to watch for Peoples Soules And People are not like to trust their Bodies muchless their Souls into the Hands of such that know not what Spirit they are of themselves And therefore consider what Spirit ye they have been of that have Persecuted put to Death spoiled the Goods Imprisoned such as would not conform to your Way and Worship and yet call your selves Christians and Ministers of Christ I say Christ who rebuked his Disciples who would have had Fire to come down from Heaven upon them that would not receive him will rebuke you also And as Christ told his Disciples They did not know what Spirit they were of neither do ye know what Spirit ye have been of And mark there were more in the Apostles Desire to have Fire come down from Heaven to Consume them that would not receive the Substance the Lord of Glory then for you to Force Imprison Persecute Banish or Put to Death or Spoil the Goods of such as will not receive your Way and Worship and Religion that you have set up So how can you but expect a greater Rebuke to come upon you that persecute and destroy such as will not receive your Forms of Religion and Worship when they were rebuked that would have Fire to come down to destroy them that would not receive Christ the Substance and the Life For they were told by Christ They did not know what Spirit they were of and that he came not to destroy Mens Lives but to save them And therefore consider how many mens Lives have been destroyed since the Apostle dayes by them that profess themselves Christians in Christendom because they would not receive their Religions and Wayes they that have done so have not known of what Spirit they are of nor followed the Mind of Christ to save mens Lives and do not know what Spirit they are of that would destroy mens Lives So weigh and consider this all People in the whole World that profess God and Christ now in this the Day of your Visitation G. F. THE END